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Pennies and Pounds: deciphering the public purse
10 October 2023, 9:30 am–10:30 am
UCL Policy Lab panel at Labour Party Conference 2023 in partnership with Onward.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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James Baggaley
Location
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Meeting Room 20ACC LiverpoolKings Dock StreetLiverpoolL3 4FPUnited Kingdom
To register for the event email policylab@ucl.ac.uk. This event will take place at the Labour Party Conference and requires attendees to have a conference pass.
As UCL and Onward research has found, the British public tends to lean leftward on economics, despite being socially conservative. This is underlined by the latest cutting-edge polling methods from UCL which shows public shifts in perceptions of tax and spending. With an increasingly relaxed attitude towards tax, the Government may have more headroom to ‘tax and spend’ if the public can see a viable uplift in public services.
This panel will discuss why this shift has occurred and how Labour can ‘tax and spend’ effectively.
About the Speakers
Professor Lucy Barnes
Associate Professor in Comparative Politics, University College London, Department of Political Science
Polly Toynbee
Columnist, The Guardian
Torsten Bell
Chief Executive, Resolution Foundation
Camilla Cavendish
Columnist, The Financial Times
Adam Hawksbee
Deputy Director, Onward (Chair)
James Murray MP
Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Ealing North